spondulicks

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   dated slang: money or available funds

   Huck would not have moved to the quiet town for all the man's spondulicks.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic US: small-denomination or fractional currency

   The shopkeeper accepted several pieces of spondulicks for the purchase.

A nineteenth-century American slang term of unknown origin, also spelled spondulix. It first referred to money, including fractional currency, and later spread into British and Irish informal use.

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